Re: Q: POS tagging of spoken language transcriptions

Eric K. Ringger (ringger@cs.rochester.edu)
Wed, 22 Nov 1995 11:48:43 -0500

Hi.

In message <Pine.SUN.3.91.951122155928.4400F-100000@esperanto>, Joakim Nivre wr
ites:
>I am interested in any work (published or unpublished) on
>part-of-speech tagging of spoken language transcriptions.
>I am especially interested in the problems of adapting
>taggers developed for written language to the demands of
>(transcribed) spoken language. The only thing I have found
>so far is a brief mention of these problems in a description
>(on the Web) of the annotation of the British National Corpus
>(by Roger Garside). I will be grateful for any information
>pertaining to this area.
[...]

Check out the work of Peter Heeman and James Allen here at the
University of Rochester. Perhaps the best place to start is Peter's
home-page at the following URL:

http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/heeman/